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Mixed or average reviews - based on 9 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 9
  3. Negative: 1 out of 9
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  1. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    75
    The upside and downside of surveillance cameras are explored in ways both funny and sad in writer-director Adam Rifkin's imaginative, ultimately disturbing ode to high-tech voyeurism.
  2. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Maureen M. Hart
    63
    The performances feel natural, improvised, and it's easy to believe this is the world we inhabit. But if Rifkin's message is pro-privacy, his script, laced throughout with menace, argues against it.
  3. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    63
    Surprisingly compelling, if not up to dealing with the larger political issues it raises.
  4. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Aaron Hillis
    50
    Look isn't processing, critiquing, or even warning; in the end, it's just recording.
  5. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Michael Ordona
    50
    With its emphasis on its interweaving stories, the movie offers no commentary on the phenomenon of increasingly pried-apart privacy, positive or negative. Not that Look needs to be political, or even particularly deep, but that nonexamination, coupled with lack of real insight into the characters, leaves one sensing an opportunity missed.
  6. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Matt Zoller Seitz
    50
    An unsettling, rudely funny but not entirely credible feature.
  7. Variety
    Reviewed by: Robert Koehler
    50
    Conceit often stretches -- and breaks -- the limits of what the tales can handle, though the implication of viewers as voyeurs gives pic a subversive edge.
  8. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Noel Murray
    42
    Aside from a smattering of irony and a resolution for one of the storylines, the security cameras aren't really threaded into Look's essential purpose. If the idea is that we're always being watched, why does it seem that in this movie, no one's really paying attention?
  9. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    38
    There are some funny moments, plus occasional nudity and sex, but the joke quickly wears off. What might have worked as a half-hour TV show doesn't suit itself to a feature-length film.
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  1. vidkid
    8
    One cannot watch Adam Rifkin’s LOOK without seeing the meta-movie inside of it: US. Even if one dismisses the mini-"stories" that the movie is comprised of, as contrived or poorly written—as some have done, (but not this reviewer)--one is also dismissing the fact that the movie is more than just about the characters in it, but about how we behave and the world we live in. Rifkin has created a brilliant movie about the world around us—seen solely through the eyes of surveillance cameras--about how we act in the world around us and how we perceive or mis-perceive things. Rifkin’s greatest feat here is how skillfully he juxtaposes the half a dozen or so vignettes so that we--and not the characters--get to see the whole picture of what is happening. The film is both a “mockumentary” of our daily lives, and a cautionary tale with the message: we are ultimately responsible for all of our actions. Ultimately, it is the primer for the excellent television show--also created by Rifkin--that followed shortly thereafter and which rivals the original movie’s ability to grab us and compel us to keep watching.… Full Review »
  2. jimeheat
    0
    This movie exonorates people causing other people great anguish and misery, and uses this as entertainment. It is not original, artistic, or witty. I think it should be illegal for anyone to make films depicting criminal acts against children, whether it's obvious or implied. This movie doesn't give you the element of fiction or fantasy like a good horror movie. People that are mentally ill might see these kind of movies and do the same things themselves. I believe in people dying of natural causes, having families that stay together , maybe even going through life without crime involved. People don't have to be religious to be good, and there's more good people in this world than bad. I never felt so strongly this way until I had kids of my own. I think a good human being should only produce things they would be proud to show their own young kids. Sure there can be adult horror movies, or artistically made tasteful movies that are for adults only, but if they are horror - there is an element of fiction. Maybe this movie sends a moral message of what not to do in life, but its crude. Human suffering should not be portrayed as comical entertainment or irony !… Full Review »
  3. JayH
    5
    Interesting premise, but the plot has one big major flaw..since when do security camera's have sound?! It does tend to fascinate none the less, but also wears thin after awhile.… Full Review »